[AMRadio] SPAM/Bounces

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Mack Rogers <n4vgb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How is it you believe gmail can stop spammers from joining the various ham radio email reflectors and control this situation?

They don't have to join, they simply hijack an email account and send
to the addresses in it, Mack. Gmail just does an excellent job of
handling *spam* sent to my account and other gmail users. Far better
than hotmail, yahoo, or any other freemail I've used before.

> It's just way too easy for spammers to join the various ham radio user groups and gather the email adresses of hundreds or thousands of users in a very short length of time.

Well, that may be true of some, but unless they are set for
auto-subscribe with no vetting, it's not as simple as just signing up.
I can assure you that members joining here are thoroughly checked
before they are allowed to subscribe, we have to approve each
membership. Seldom will one slip through and when they do, it's
usually just some idiot troll looking to cause trouble rather than a
spammer. Rather than waste the effort, they just take over address
books and access groups with addresses that are already registered
members.

So, it's not as simple as you suggest.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4